Author Topic: The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)  (Read 7211883 times)

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"B" is burnt
« Reply #8920 on: November 26, 2006, 11:19:39 pm »
Ennis didn't want to be burnt again by the fire and brimstone crowd - oops by another marriage.

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If he doesn't want to get burnt, he'd better stay away from these campfires, too.
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"C" is cock-and-bull
« Reply #8921 on: November 26, 2006, 11:25:41 pm »
When Ennis told Alma that he had caught a bunch of browns and ate them up on one of his "fishing trips", it was a cock-and-bull story.
« Last Edit: November 26, 2006, 11:30:23 pm by Memento »

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"D" is drooping
« Reply #8922 on: November 26, 2006, 11:26:47 pm »
"Ennis stayed as lean as a clothespole, stepped around in worn boots, jeans and shirts summer and winter, added a canvas coat in cold weather.  A benigh growth appeared on his eyelid and gave it a drooping appearance; a broken nose healed crooked."  [story]

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I did miss the campfires.  I think they're my favorite.
« Last Edit: November 26, 2006, 11:31:37 pm by Fran »

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"E" is effect
« Reply #8923 on: November 26, 2006, 11:32:31 pm »
The summer that Jack and Ennis spent on Brokeback Mountain had a lifelong effect on each of them.


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"F" is fly
« Reply #8924 on: November 26, 2006, 11:40:12 pm »
Since Ennis hadn't "yet had the oportunity", he had to fly by the seat of his pants after Jack placed his hand on his crotch in Tent Scene I.

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"G" is Gino
« Reply #8925 on: November 26, 2006, 11:47:06 pm »
Gino Savoia is one of the three paramedics listed in the film's closing credits.

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"H" is hawks
« Reply #8926 on: November 26, 2006, 11:53:18 pm »
Two hawks show up in the writings for Brokeback Mountain:

One is mentioned by Annie Proulx as she says that in 1963:
"There were only the two of them on the mountain flying in the euphoric, bitter air, looking down on the hawk's back and the crawling lights of vehicles on the plain below, suspended above ordinary affairs and distant from tame ranch dogs barking in the dark hours."

In the screenplay a hawk is seen in 1982:
"We pull back and see the great sweep of the bald, desolate countryside. Ennis passes several abandoned ranch houses sitting blank-eyed, surrounded with weeds. The corral fences have fallen down. A lone hawk circles. Ennis slows down."


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"I" is instinctive
« Reply #8927 on: November 27, 2006, 12:12:39 am »
Ennis made an instinctive move away from Jack when he woke to find his hand on Jack's crotch.
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"J" is Jimbo's
« Reply #8928 on: November 27, 2006, 12:28:20 am »
Jimbo's advice to Jack when they were sitting at the bar was to not buy him a gay drink and save his money for future rodeo fees.

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"K" is knave
« Reply #8929 on: November 27, 2006, 12:54:55 am »
L.D. Newsome treated Jack as his knave.

def. - a man of humble position, a male servant.
« Last Edit: November 27, 2006, 01:34:22 am by Fran »